Word: minn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What a Sailor Must Learn. Cornelius Shields was born far from the sea, in St. Paul, Minn., in 1895. Fitly enough, it was a notable year in U.S. sailing history, though the year's tidings made little ripple beyond the Eastern Seaboard. It was the year in which American yachtsmen, sailing Defender, a lineal descendant of the great ocean racer America,* defeated the British challenger for the tenth straight time in the America's Cup series. It was also the year in which the premier international championship for smaller boats, the Seawanhaka Cup series, was launched. Though...
...Paul, Minn, last Feb. 11, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson laid down a basic Benson principle: "We seek a minimum of restrictions on farm production and marketing ..." Last week Secretary Benson, still firmly devoted to that principle, nevertheless moved toward more restriction. He established marketing quotas on the 1954 U.S. wheat crop...
Such a work load would be more than enough for most sculptors. But Mestrovic also has another and even bigger project. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, has asked him to decorate the fagade of its new diagnostic building, and Mestrovic has answered with a typically herculean work. To be cast in gleaming bronze, it is a straight-backed figure of a young man straining to reach the sky-28 feet from tiptoe to fingertip. Mestrovic calls the statue Man and Freedom, and into its graceful, classical pose he has poured the philosophy that guides him through his work. Says...
Goldwaits H. Dorr 3d, New York City; William S. Kaden, Brookline, Mass.; John C. Livingstone, Pittsfield, Mass.; William P. Pierskalla, Bomidji, Minn.; Anthony Jonathan Saville, NewYork City; Rex J. Snodgress, Arlington, Va.; Kenneth G. Swan, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Joshua J. T. Whatmough, Winchester, Mass.; Arthur A. Willis, Braintree, Mass.; Kenneth G. Wilson, Bethesda, Md.; Alexis O. Thielens, Tuscaloosa...
...George W. Chase, Canton, Mass.; Richard J. Clasby, Natick, Mass.; Walter S. Cooledge 3d, Arlington, Mass.; Thomas J. Coolidge Jr., Brookline, Mass.; Walter F. Greeley, Framingham, Mass.; Edward A. Hubbard, South Natick, Mass.; Francis X. Mahoney, Boston, Mass.; Douglas C. Manchester, Newton, Mass.; Edward J. Mrkonich, Eveleth, Minn.; James B. O'Brien, Cambridge, Mass.; Edwin B. Richardson, New York City; Reginald N. Wood, Marblehead, Mass.; Maynard W. Powning, Wayland, Mass...